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  1. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    A prodigal starts with ten thousand pounds, and dies worth nothing; a miser starts with nothing, and does worth ten thousand pounds. It has been asked which has had the best of it? I should presume the prodigal; he has spent a fortune — but the miser has only left one; — he has lived rich, to die poor; the miser has lived poor, to die rich; and if the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it, still deeper in debt to himself.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 131 (1822)

    More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #enjoyment #avarice #debt #extravagant #greed #miser #misery #overindulgence #overspending #poverty #prodigal #profligate #selfdeprivation #skinflint #spendthrift #wastefulness #wastrel #wealth

  2. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    A prodigal starts with ten thousand pounds, and dies worth nothing; a miser starts with nothing, and does worth ten thousand pounds. It has been asked which has had the best of it? I should presume the prodigal; he has spent a fortune — but the miser has only left one; — he has lived rich, to die poor; the miser has lived poor, to die rich; and if the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it, still deeper in debt to himself.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 131 (1822)

    More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #enjoyment #avarice #debt #extravagant #greed #miser #misery #overindulgence #overspending #poverty #prodigal #profligate #selfdeprivation #skinflint #spendthrift #wastefulness #wastrel #wealth

  3. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    A prodigal starts with ten thousand pounds, and dies worth nothing; a miser starts with nothing, and does worth ten thousand pounds. It has been asked which has had the best of it? I should presume the prodigal; he has spent a fortune — but the miser has only left one; — he has lived rich, to die poor; the miser has lived poor, to die rich; and if the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it, still deeper in debt to himself.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 131 (1822)

    More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #enjoyment #avarice #debt #extravagant #greed #miser #misery #overindulgence #overspending #poverty #prodigal #profligate #selfdeprivation #skinflint #spendthrift #wastefulness #wastrel #wealth

  4. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    A prodigal starts with ten thousand pounds, and dies worth nothing; a miser starts with nothing, and does worth ten thousand pounds. It has been asked which has had the best of it? I should presume the prodigal; he has spent a fortune — but the miser has only left one; — he has lived rich, to die poor; the miser has lived poor, to die rich; and if the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it, still deeper in debt to himself.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 131 (1822)

    More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #enjoyment #avarice #debt #extravagant #greed #miser #misery #overindulgence #overspending #poverty #prodigal #profligate #selfdeprivation #skinflint #spendthrift #wastefulness #wastrel #wealth

  5. Dear Friends of a #different #Kind, 🪶
    I was on
    #Tooting #common this #morning. Not 'Commons' as the SUV #elites #delight in dividing for their #unthink-tanks to drive through. ​:gi:​

    A group of
    #Wombles from #Wimbledon have planted ye #olde sturdy #oaks from a golf course, also an invasion onto common land. I also noted two #trees broken in two by spoiled #children. In a sense we are all #spoiled and then grow under trees or #daisies. Or on the moon or Mars of the future, in some #extravagant ostentation of irrelevance and #irreverence. Dead is dead. 👻

    Half a tree may grow. Half a planet may
    #survive. Maybe. It is a question of #inevitability Mr Anderson, Nothing Neo under the Sol Matrix, stars or #multiverse... or is there? ​:ablobcatcoffee:​

    Always there is. More. More
    #incomprehensible, more to #wonder. More to do #better. What fun for the #unicorns and trans-rainbows and critters we save. ​:ablobcatbouncefast:​

    www.theguardian.com
    /commentisfree/article/2024/may/09/culture-warriors-national-trust-populists-polarising-divisive?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

  6. Dear Friends of a #different #Kind, 🪶
    I was on
    #Tooting #common this #morning. Not 'Commons' as the SUV #elites #delight in dividing for their #unthink-tanks to drive through. ​:gi:​

    A group of
    #Wombles from #Wimbledon have planted ye #olde sturdy #oaks from a golf course, also an invasion onto common land. I also noted two #trees broken in two by spoiled #children. In a sense we are all #spoiled and then grow under trees or #daisies. Or on the moon or Mars of the future, in some #extravagant ostentation of irrelevance and #irreverence. Dead is dead. 👻

    Half a tree may grow. Half a planet may
    #survive. Maybe. It is a question of #inevitability Mr Anderson, Nothing Neo under the Sol Matrix, stars or #multiverse... or is there? ​:ablobcatcoffee:​

    Always there is. More. More
    #incomprehensible, more to #wonder. More to do #better. What fun for the #unicorns and trans-rainbows and critters we save. ​:ablobcatbouncefast:​

    www.theguardian.com
    /commentisfree/article/2024/may/09/culture-warriors-national-trust-populists-polarising-divisive?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

  7. Dear Friends of a #different #Kind, 🪶
    I was on
    #Tooting #common this #morning. Not 'Commons' as the SUV #elites #delight in dividing for their #unthink-tanks to drive through. ​:gi:​

    A group of
    #Wombles from #Wimbledon have planted ye #olde sturdy #oaks from a golf course, also an invasion onto common land. I also noted two #trees broken in two by spoiled #children. In a sense we are all #spoiled and then grow under trees or #daisies. Or on the moon or Mars of the future, in some #extravagant ostentation of irrelevance and #irreverence. Dead is dead. 👻

    Half a tree may grow. Half a planet may
    #survive. Maybe. It is a question of #inevitability Mr Anderson, Nothing Neo under the Sol Matrix, stars or #multiverse... or is there? ​:ablobcatcoffee:​

    Always there is. More. More
    #incomprehensible, more to #wonder. More to do #better. What fun for the #unicorns and trans-rainbows and critters we save. ​:ablobcatbouncefast:​

    www.theguardian.com
    /commentisfree/article/2024/may/09/culture-warriors-national-trust-populists-polarising-divisive?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

  8. #extravagant : wandering beyond one's bounds

    - Portuguese: extravagante

    - Spanish: extravagante

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